2nd Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival

The mission of the Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival is to propagate the music of 20th and 21st centuries and showcase avant-garde compositions from all over the world. The Festival aims to provide a forum for composers and performers to advance and develop new projects, and aspires to establish itself as an annual event of international scope.

Now in its second year, the Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival continues to diversify by presenting four exciting concerts,  from 1 until 4 September 2010.

Last Concert: 4 September 2010/ The Olive Grove, Delikipos / 7.30

The last concert will combine acoustic ecology and contemporary dance and music, and will take place at the breathtaking outdoors concert venue of the Pharos Arts Foundation, The Olive Grove in Delikipos. 

The event will comprise two parts of approx. an hour each: 

a) The first part will feature six dancers of the Lee K. Dance Group, who they will open the programme with one of the most iconic electronic music works, Luc Ferrari’s Presque Rien No. 1 ou le lever du jour au bord de la mer, which uses sounds from daily life. The sounds of crickets, cars, people, water and wind, to name but a few, are manipulated and mixed electronically but never lose their character and are structured in such a way as to make them sound as natural as possible. The mixing of this work will allow for these sounds to blend with the sounds from Delikipos, the real crickets will blend with the “electronic crickets,” creating a very intimate atmosphere. The work will not be just listened to; there will be six site-specific dance installations by four dancers in different spaces with distinct themes such as water, the earth, man-made structures that already exist within the space. The audience will walk around these six spaces, experiencing a visual polyrhythm as the six solo performances will be performed using six different time divisions/tempi. The programme will also include Ligeti’s monumental Poeme Symphonique for 100 metronomes! A hundred metronomes ticking together at different speeds gradually stop naturally one after the other after they ran their course, resulting in increasingly coherent polyrhythmic structures out of the original cloud of noise. The last remaining metronome ticking marks the beginning of an astonishing solo dance work by Korean choreographer Lee Kyungeun, which entails no formal music.

b) The second part will comprise a concert by one of the most distinguished percussion groups in the world,  the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble from Sweden. This is an alternative programme consisting of some of the most famous works written for a combination of percussions. It will surely appeal to people of all ages and aesthetics and will bring a monumental finale to the Second Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival.

Saturday, 4 September 2010
The Olive Grove, Delikipos/ 7.30pm

Dance Installations by Lee K. Dance Company

Luc Ferrari (1929 - 2005)
Presque Rien No. 1 ou le lever du jour au bord de la mer (1970) 

György Ligeti (1923 – 2006)             
Poeme Symphonique for 100 metronomes (1962) 

György Ligeti (1923 – 2006)             
“Come un meccanismo di precisione” - 3rd Movement from String Quartet No. 2 (1968)

interval

Kroumata Percussion Ensemble

György Ligeti (1923 – 2006)            
Car Horn Prelude from the opera Le Grand Macabre (1977)

Iannis Xenakis (1922 – 2001)      
Okho (1989)

Sven-David Sandstrom (b. 1942)
Cool (1987)

Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Pieces of Wood (1973)

John Eriksson (b. 1974)
A forest of hands (2005)

John Cage (1912 - 1992)
Branches (1976)

Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Drumming – Part 1 (1971)

Contributors
Organizer	The Pharos Arts Foundation